Definition of Compt

1. n. Account; reckoning; computation.

2. v. t. To compute; to count.

3. a. Neat; spruce.

Definition of Compt

1. Adjective. (obsolete) neat; spruce ¹

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Definition of Compt

1. to count [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: count

Lexicographical Neighbors of Compt

compromisers
compromises
compromising
compromisingly
compromissorial
compromit
compromize
comproportionation
comproportionations
comprovincial
comprovincials
compræhensive
comps
compsognathoid
compsognathus
compt (current term)
compte rendu
compted
compter
compters
comptes rendus
comptessa
comptible
compting
comptly
comptometer
comptometers
compton effect
comptonization
comptrol

Literary usage of Compt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1862)
"1 to 3 consecutively : compt. rend. 32, 498. — Estimation : compt. rend. ... compt. rend. 45, 1021 ; J. pr. Chem. 74, 232 (Formation of Alcohols by ..."

2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"It is extremely soluble in acetone (Claude and Hess, compt. rend. 124. ... (For other thermal properties see also Berthelot, compt, rend. ..."

3. The Metals of the Rare Earths by James Frederick Spencer (1919)
"859 Katz and James, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 1914, 36, 779-84. s60 Keyes and James, J. Amer. Chem. Soc., 1914, 36, 634-38. 6s1 Matignon, compt. rend., ..."

4. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"1893, 03, 1051 ; compt. rend. 1898, 12«, 187 ; Ber. 1899, 32, 3015.) Bromine, chlorine, and iodine from one another, (a) The three elements are precipitated ..."

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